Some people think the Milky Way is a long line of stars, but it isn't. Our galaxy is a huge disk of stars millions of light-years across, and the solar system is somewhere near the outside edge of the disk.
Quotes about light-years (12 Quotes)
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch wide, and quite a lot of millions of light-years from end to end.
The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small.
If the universe was finite, and had a size of about 4 billion to 5 billion light-years, then light would be able to wrap around the universe, and with a big enough telescope we could view the Earth just after it solidified and when the first life formed. Unfortunately, our results rule out this tantalizing possibility.
It's very close with teams four through eight. There are some teams out at nine and 10 that are realistically in the picture. You are aware of possibilities and things like that. We're light-years from talking about playoff seeding right now. It's too long to go.
I'm really pleased with what I know so far about this election, ... It's light-years away from what the performance was last year.
I've been playing since early August and it was a slow process getting back in. It wasn't until mid to late September when I started to feel like myself again. I feel light-years better than I did last year coming into this season physically.
It seems like we're light-years better than we were last year. I was wondering, 'What is the difference between this year and last year' Well, maybe everybody is back at the position they belong.
This was a very forward-thinking program. Connecticut was light-years ahead when it established this program.
This burst smashes the old distance record by 500 million light-years.
I feel light-years better than I did last year coming into the season, ... I think they figured everything out. I haven't had any problems at all. I've been playing since early August. Mid-to-late September is when I started to feel like myself again. I've also lost quite a bit of weight.
This is what we've all been hoping and waiting for. This breaks the record for most distant explosion by a huge amount 500 million light-years, and I don't think we'll have to wait long to break it again.